Folk Customs of Xinshi Town

A long history, as early as the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is a memorial to the town's generals new city people Zhu Si Yongling Temple Fair, time in the spring and fall. In addition, there is the first three days of March in the lunar calendar, the Golden Dragon King's birthday of the water dragon temple fair statue enshrined in the South Grid King Temple (now near the shipyard), the day of the firefighting team of all neighborhoods gathered in front of the Liu Wang Temple race to fight the fire dragon spray the highest water champion. At that time, Liu Wang Temple in front of a sea of traffic, to the end of the 40s party abolished.

Juehai Temple Silkworm Flower Temple Fair is also the new city's traditional temple fair, as for the organization of the age has not been examined, the end of the Qing Dynasty for the early Republic of China's heyday. Silkworms reeling from ancient times is the main economic source of the four townships of the new city, farmers prayed to God for the silkworms to eliminate diseases and disasters to give a year of abundance. Every year, the Qingming Festival, Chongde County, Wuxing County, Yuhang County, and other neighboring farmers in the new city, are flocking to the ancient temple Jiehai Temple, to participate in the annual rolling silkworm flower temple fair. Believe in the Buddhist spirit before the mountain to worship Buddha, devoutly praying for a good harvest. Rural girls and sisters-in-law dress up their arms loaded with silkworm seed head inserted silkworm flowers, some silkworm flowers into a butterfly-shaped, some were beautiful flower-shaped, it is really each with its own posture, the competition, attracting men, women and children to come inside and outside the JUEHAI Temple to watch you roll I squeeze, so that is said to be rolled silkworm flowers, folklore says that the rolling the more violent the silkworm flowers the better the harvest.

Silkworm flower temple fair also for love at first sight of young men and women to provide the opportunity to fall in love. The new city folk has circulated a rolling silkworm flower folk song: Qingming weather warm, peach and willow green good scenery, aunt and sister-in-law went to the street, rouge and powder pretty comb make-up, red and green silkworm flower head inserted, perfume sprinkled pungent fragrance, Juehai Temple is really fierce, men, women and young and old people like the sea, neighboring villages, waiting for the neighboring village, once I saw a sister crowded beside the thighs of the sneaky pinch, the girl's face red and thin angrily lang. JUEHAI Temple is crowded, up to thousands of people, a variety of acrobatics magic Mao children's theater Western mirror and other exciting performances to attract the audience. Numerous north and south theater respectively in Liu Wang Temple, Yongling East Temple, Yongling West Temple, Dongyue line ancestral temple and other places for three days, so that many fans of the new city theater. After the end of the temple fair four rural villages began spring plowing silkworms, this custom until 1936. The Qingming Festival in 1999, interrupted for 63 years of the new city silkworm flower temple activities resumed. The temple fair organized by the new city trade and tourism company has a sound and colorful. The temple parade consists of dragon dance team, silkworm flower lady sedan chair, waist drum team, etc., in the new city main street tour. A time when farmers from all over the countryside flocked to the new city to witness the disappearance of the flower of the event, the town's main roads such as the tide of thousands of people, the viewers up to about 40,000 people. Qingming in 2000, the new city town held the second silkworm flower temple fair, bell tube town, under the town, Shilin town, such as the organization of silkworm flower Maiden team to participate in the viewers up to about 100,000 people. The new city area in the north of Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Huzhou Plain, fertile land, fertile land, is an important commodity food sericulture and aquatic products base. As early as in the Ming Dynasty, there were indica rice, wheat, beans, cabbage, infinite amount of water, peaches, plums, wuling, wuling, vegetable oil, red wine, shochu, white wine, soy sauce, tea cakes, cakes, honey and so on, and since the Qing Dynasty, there are traditional specialties such as Zhang Yipin mutton, tea cakes, edamame beans, sesame seeds, caramelized sugar, malt wheat cakes and so on.

Over the past hundred years, people in Xinshi have taken a liking to eating mutton. Xinshi Lamb Nei is made in a very elaborate way, with raw materials selected from year-old lake sheep, and simmered overnight over a medium fire with dozens of seasonings such as soy sauce, net oil, brown sugar and caramelized sugar. It is characterized by fat but not greasy, crispy but not rotten. Among the many restaurants, "Zhang Yipin" is the most famous. Of course, if you don't want to enjoy the mutton alone, you can go to the Yindu Hotel to have a "whole mutton feast". In addition to sheep, tea cakes and malted wheat dumplings are also a specialty of Xinshi's snacks.

The tea cakes are steamed with glutinous rice flour and embedded with a ball of minced pork in the center. The freshly steamed tea cakes are full of aroma. One bite, oily and glutinous, long flavor. It is much better than ham dumplings.

And bud wheat round son, is the new city of four townships and eight villages of farmers' traditional snacks, mostly homemade for the farmers to eat, but also for the gift of friends and relatives and specially made. The main raw materials of Bud Mai Yuanzi are glutinous rice flour, wheat malt, cotton thread grass, sugar, sesame and so on, which is pure green food. It has a sweet, glutinous and soft taste and is especially good when eaten cold.

Additionally, Xinshi's fine sandy mutton tails, edamame beans, dried pickled noodles and crispy candies are local specialties with a history of hundreds of years.

Recently, the party committee government of Xinshi Town has organized the "Mutton and Yellow Wine Festival" to Hangzhou Wushan Plaza, so that the aroma of mutton and yellow wine floats into thousands of households in Hangzhou with the "Wushan Tianfeng".